Permit holder shoots mugger in NY

  • Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #479630

    From another paper…. If these new report is true…I change my stance.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/450805p-379460c.html

    Punk picked wrong gran!

    She shoots mugger in Harlem

    BY KERRY BURKE, ETHAN SACKS and MICHAEL WHITE
    DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

    Margaret Johnson shot mugger from motorized wheelchair.

    A pistol-packing Harlem granny turned the tables on a robber yesterday, busting out her registered .357 magnum and shooting the mugger in the elbow – while riding in her motorized scooter, cops said.
    Feisty Margaret Johnson, 57, who has a dislocated hip and a herniated disk, was heading out for target practice about 3 p.m. when a career criminal came up behind her and went for her necklaces, sources said.

    “There’s not much to it,” she said later. “Somebody tried to mug me, and I shot him.”

    The thief “walked past her, and came around and choked her,” said Johnson’s pal, Lynnell Bunce, 40. “He was going for her jewelry, and he got it. He didn’t say anything – until she shot him.”

    Then the man cursed and fled from the scene outside 470 Lenox Ave., where the victim has lived for decades, Bunce said.

    “I’m very tired. It was very scary,” Johnson said as she later entered her building in her three-wheeled scooter with scratches on her neck and left hand. “I’ve had a very long day.”

    Police followed the trail of the wounded man’s blood to a McDonald’s restaurant not far from Johnson’s building and arrested 45-year-old Deron Johnson, an ex-con with nine robbery arrests who is no relation to the victim, sources said.

    He was in stable condition at Harlem Hospital last night, and charges were pending against him. The jewelry was recovered, officials said.

    Margaret Johnson has a premises permit for the gun, a police source said, meaning she is allowed to keep the pistol in her home and transport it to a firing range.

    Bunce said her friend, who has a grown son and at least one grandchild, got the permit when she was a bus driver for the city.

    Neighbors said Johnson, a granddaughter of a famed Harlem gangster, the late Ellsworth (Bumpy) Johnson, is a well-known and well-liked woman.

    “Everyone loves Margaret,” Bunce said. “Margaret is funny. She’s like clockwork. She’s lived here forever, and she walks her dog four times a day and says hello to everybody.”

    “She’s spunky,” said Toi Frederick, 26, a lawyer who lives in the same building. “I wouldn’t think she would be someone who would just lay down and give up her stuff.”

    Bunce said she walked outside after hearing a commotion and saw her friend sitting in her scooter. “I saw her in the chair, and she was in a state of shock. I said, ‘Margaret, do you need me?’ She said, ‘Yes,’ and I said, ‘Well, Margaret, let’s go.’ “

    The pair went to the 32nd Precinct police station, where Johnson told cops her dramatic story.

    With Robert F. Moore and News Wire Service Reports

    Originally published on September 9, 2006

    vikefanmn77
    Northfield,MN
    Posts: 1493
    #20771

    A shooting is justified if someone breaks into your house, so why wouldnt it be in the case of a mugging?

    vikefanmn77
    Northfield,MN
    Posts: 1493
    #479640

    A shooting is justified if someone breaks into your house, so why wouldnt it be in the case of a mugging?

    Fishing Machine
    Lansing, Ia
    Posts: 810
    #20772

    May God Bless her heart. That got what he deserved.

    Fishing Machine
    Lansing, Ia
    Posts: 810
    #479650

    May God Bless her heart. That got what he deserved.

    bj451
    saint michael minn
    Posts: 92
    #20775

    should have aimed for the head save the court/jail system time and money.

    bj451
    saint michael minn
    Posts: 92
    #479662

    should have aimed for the head save the court/jail system time and money.

    broadwaybob
    Janesville, WI
    Posts: 402
    #20783

    Where’d the stray bullet go? I’m just glad I wasn’t an innocent bystander with the stray slug in my side. She’d be charged with reckless endangerment for sure then. This is one of those slippery slopes that seems reasonable at first, but has a nasty domino-effect in the end.

    I hope her story holds about the shooting range, or some ambitious public defender may be making a name for him/herself at the expense of a feisty old lady.

    broadwaybob
    Janesville, WI
    Posts: 402
    #479721

    Where’d the stray bullet go? I’m just glad I wasn’t an innocent bystander with the stray slug in my side. She’d be charged with reckless endangerment for sure then. This is one of those slippery slopes that seems reasonable at first, but has a nasty domino-effect in the end.

    I hope her story holds about the shooting range, or some ambitious public defender may be making a name for him/herself at the expense of a feisty old lady.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #20784

    Yeah, it could have been bad…but wasn’t. Too many scenarios to go thru. I guess if I was being choked…well it’s hard to fault her for doing what it took to get out of that situation.

    I looked up the type of permit she had. It allows for an UNLOADED weapon to be transported to and from a range. Her claiming that she was on her way to the range is..well understandable whether she was or not…but being that her gun was loaded…she was in clear violation of her permit.

    To the police and the DA for not persuing this.

    Although it makes me wonder if I would get the same deal?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #479722

    Yeah, it could have been bad…but wasn’t. Too many scenarios to go thru. I guess if I was being choked…well it’s hard to fault her for doing what it took to get out of that situation.

    I looked up the type of permit she had. It allows for an UNLOADED weapon to be transported to and from a range. Her claiming that she was on her way to the range is..well understandable whether she was or not…but being that her gun was loaded…she was in clear violation of her permit.

    To the police and the DA for not persuing this.

    Although it makes me wonder if I would get the same deal?

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